Braciola
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* Inspired by another thread
Here's my Experience:
The Creamback 75 is a brash, sounding speaker in the mids, upper mids & high end.
I call it the speaker with no personality , because it sounds like a mish mosh combination of a vintage 30, g12h30, and greenback with their worst qualities rolled into one speaker
Besides being brash, I find notes getting smeared with the over abundance and overlapping mid/upper mid/ high frequencies - hard to describe, but it's like two lbs of Bologna shoved into a one pound sack.
Probably, my least favorite Celestion.
I made the mistake of ordering a brand new quad about a year and a half ago without ever hearing them in person (not that there were anywhere available for me to listen to.)
I figured they can't be too shabby if John Suhr/Pete Thorn & George from Metro liked them enough to use in their cabs (for the PT-100 Signature & the MetroPlex)
Boy was I wrong.
Loaded them into my SoneAge 4X12, and right out of the box..... nasty.
So, I pounded them for a week playing bass heavy club music into a 100 watt tube power amp to loosen them up a bit.
I then played a few very long, loud jams with the cab.
During the last jam, I started off with the Creamback 75 loaded cab, then switch over to a greenback/vintage 30 loaded StoneAge 4X12 cab & then a 2X12 loaded with Scumback M 65watt & H 65 watt speakers (using my Germino MGL50 & Bogner 20th Shiva)
Everyone in the room commented how nasty & brash the Creamback 75 cab sounded, and how sweet the Vintage 30/Greenback loaded 4X12 and Scumback loaded 2X12 sounded.
I even tried mixing the Creamback 75's with other speakers, to no avail.
Funny, I was talking with a Very popular "Marshall" style builder about the 65 & 75 Creabacks last year.
He knows I'm a bit of a speaker nerd (I had my own speaker reconing business back in the early 80's), so I tried to warn him about the 75, but he wanted to try them out for himself.
Fast forward two weeks later, he sends me a PM saying,......... and I quote....... "the 75's Creambacks are probably the most un-musicals speakers I've ever played."
Here's my Experience:
The Creamback 75 is a brash, sounding speaker in the mids, upper mids & high end.
I call it the speaker with no personality , because it sounds like a mish mosh combination of a vintage 30, g12h30, and greenback with their worst qualities rolled into one speaker
Besides being brash, I find notes getting smeared with the over abundance and overlapping mid/upper mid/ high frequencies - hard to describe, but it's like two lbs of Bologna shoved into a one pound sack.
Probably, my least favorite Celestion.
I made the mistake of ordering a brand new quad about a year and a half ago without ever hearing them in person (not that there were anywhere available for me to listen to.)
I figured they can't be too shabby if John Suhr/Pete Thorn & George from Metro liked them enough to use in their cabs (for the PT-100 Signature & the MetroPlex)
Boy was I wrong.
Loaded them into my SoneAge 4X12, and right out of the box..... nasty.
So, I pounded them for a week playing bass heavy club music into a 100 watt tube power amp to loosen them up a bit.
I then played a few very long, loud jams with the cab.
During the last jam, I started off with the Creamback 75 loaded cab, then switch over to a greenback/vintage 30 loaded StoneAge 4X12 cab & then a 2X12 loaded with Scumback M 65watt & H 65 watt speakers (using my Germino MGL50 & Bogner 20th Shiva)
Everyone in the room commented how nasty & brash the Creamback 75 cab sounded, and how sweet the Vintage 30/Greenback loaded 4X12 and Scumback loaded 2X12 sounded.
I even tried mixing the Creamback 75's with other speakers, to no avail.
Funny, I was talking with a Very popular "Marshall" style builder about the 65 & 75 Creabacks last year.
He knows I'm a bit of a speaker nerd (I had my own speaker reconing business back in the early 80's), so I tried to warn him about the 75, but he wanted to try them out for himself.
Fast forward two weeks later, he sends me a PM saying,......... and I quote....... "the 75's Creambacks are probably the most un-musicals speakers I've ever played."
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